Fuk Tak Temple, Shau Kei Wan, Chinese temple in Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong.
Fuk Tak Temple is a temple complex at Lot 4227, Ai Tsz Oi Village, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong. Its six shrines—Fuk Tak, Kwun Yam, Kwan Tai, Hung Shing, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei—stand together on a hillside, making it the only place in Hong Kong where Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are worshipped jointly.
In 1887 residents found a statue of Fuk Tak after a typhoon and placed it in a small shed at the entrance of Shallow Water Pier Village, called Nam On Fong Fuk Tak Shrine. Moved to Chai Wan Road in 1937, the site was resumed by the government in 1959. After residents opposed a 1965 demolition plan, the government granted a hillside plot in Ai Tsz Oi Village, and the temple opened in January 1970, registered with the Chinese Temples Committee that November.
The complex holds six shrines: Fuk Tak, Kwun Yum, Kwan Tai, Hung Shing, Cheung Fei and Lau Bei. Each has its own feast day, such as Fuk Tak's on the second day of the second lunar month and Cheung Fei's on the nineteenth of the twelfth. On Cheung Fei's birthday a lion dance team sets out from Shau Kei Wan Tam Kung Temple and pays respects at each shrine in turn; the celebration joined Hong Kong's first intangible cultural heritage list in 2013.
The temple complex stands on a hillside plot at 4227 Ai Tsz Oi Village, reached by climbing the slope above Shau Kei Wan; the six shrines sit close together, so visitors move from Fuk Tak to Kwan Yin Rock, Kuan Ti, Hung Shing, Chang Fei and Liu Pei in turn. Incense is offered to Fuk Tak first, then Liu Pei and Kuan Yu, and Chang Fei last.
The complex is the only place in Hong Kong where Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are worshipped together. A stele on the floor records the story of Zhang Fei and Zheng Baoyi, the brother whose recovery led to the Zhang Fei Temple being built in 1982.
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